Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
  • G01N33/00—Investigating or analysing materials by specific methods not covered by groups G01N1/00 - G01N31/00
  • G01N33/48—Biological material, e.g. blood, urine; Haemocytometers
  • G01N33/50—Chemical analysis of biological material, e.g. blood, urine; Testing involving biospecific ligand binding methods; Immunological testing
  • G01N33/53—Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor
  • G01N33/543—Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor with an insoluble carrier for immobilising immunochemicals
  • G01N33/544—Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor with an insoluble carrier for immobilising immunochemicals the carrier being organic
  • G01N33/545—Synthetic resin
• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C08—ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
  • C08J—WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
  • C08J7/00—Chemical treatment or coating of shaped articles made of macromolecular substances
  • C08J7/04—Coating
  • C08J7/0427—Coating with only one layer of a composition containing a polymer binder
• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C08—ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
  • C08J—WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
  • C08J7/00—Chemical treatment or coating of shaped articles made of macromolecular substances
  • C08J7/04—Coating
  • C08J7/056—Forming hydrophilic coatings
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
  • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
  • G01N33/00—Investigating or analysing materials by specific methods not covered by groups G01N1/00 - G01N31/00
  • G01N33/48—Biological material, e.g. blood, urine; Haemocytometers
  • G01N33/50—Chemical analysis of biological material, e.g. blood, urine; Testing involving biospecific ligand binding methods; Immunological testing
  • G01N33/53—Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor
  • G01N33/543—Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor with an insoluble carrier for immobilising immunochemicals
  • G01N33/54353—Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor with an insoluble carrier for immobilising immunochemicals with ligand attached to the carrier via a chemical coupling agent
• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C08—ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
  • C08J—WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
  • C08J2400/00—Characterised by the use of unspecified polymers
  • C08J2400/14—Water soluble or water swellable polymers, e.g. aqueous gels
• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C08—ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
  • C08J—WORKING-UP; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H
  • C08J2405/00—Characterised by the use of polysaccharides or of their derivatives not provided for in groups C08J2401/00 or C08J2403/00

Definitions

• Water-insoluble matrices have been used very successfully to couple reagents that are to be used in the analysis of biochemicals or in solid-phase synthesis involving biosubstances.
• the matrices have also been used as support phases in chromatography, for instance in ion- exchange chromatography, and as support layers in conjunction with liquid absorbents, such as diapers and sanitary napkins for instance.
• Synthetic matrices have often been hydrophobic, resulting in high non-specific adsorption, such matrices being water repellent, protein denaturing and difficult to derivate. Consequently, there is a general need to be able to hydrophilize hydrophobic surfaces/matrices.
• Hydrophilization is known to the art. Oxidizing techniques, such as acid baths, flaming and corona- treatments are often used in industrial applications (e.g. in the case of films, flasks, bottles etc.) . Alternative techniques are known for obtaining controlled surface structures, such as plasma polymerization (H. Yasuda, Plasma Polymerization, Academic Press Inc. (1985)), grafting with the aid of electron radiation (F. Yamamoto et al., J. Pol. Sci . (Polymer Chemistry Edition 16 (1978) 1897-1907) or gamma radiation (F. Yamamoto et al. , J. Pol. Sci.
• grafting polymerization is initiated from the polymer surface.
• the functionality of the surface can vary, depending on which monomers are added.
• the technique has earlier been applied to introduce hydrophilic layers which consist essentially of polyethylene glycol and heparin (K. Allmer, Thesis, Kungliga Tekniska H ⁇ gskolan, Sweden (1988)) .
• the invention provides a method of hydrophilizing a plastic surface with the aid of a photo-initiated grafting process .
• the method is simpler to perform than the earlier used methods and is able to impart comparable or improved properties to the applied layer.
• the method is primarily intended to provide hydrophobic surfaces with a dextran layer.
• the inventive method comprises the steps of: i. contacting a hydrophobic polymer plastic surface with a liquid which has dissolved therein a. a hydrogen-abstracting photoinitiator that is activated by UV-light, and b. a hydrophilic polymer which includes alkene groups, with the condition that the plastic surface presents a hydrophobic polymer having a plurality of hydrogens bound to sp 3 -hybridized (saturated) carbon atoms and which can be abstracted by the initiator when said intiator is activated, and then (ii) exposing the mixture to UV-light having a wave length which activates the photoinitiator.
• the method is unique because the hydrophilic polymer is bound covalently to the plastic surface in one and the same step. This is made possible by the presence of the alkene groups in the hydrophilic polymer. By one and the same step is meant that no change in reaction conditions are necessary between activation and binding of alkene groups to the hydrophobic polymer.
• An essential factor in achieving high quality hydrophilization and retention of the original properties of the plastic is that the photoinitiator must not penetrate the plastic to any appreciable extent.
• the surface (the matrix) to be hydrophilized may have different physical forms. It may have the form of a pore system, such as in porous bodies (monoliths or particles) or membranes, diaphragms, intended for chromatography processes, water absorption, etc.
• the inner surfaces of vessels, hoses, etc. can also be coated by means of the invention, particularly when these vessels or hoses will have contact with biomolecules, without said biomolecules being denatured or undesirably adsorbed on the surface.
• the surface may also be a part of a matrix body whose interior is constructed from a totally different material, for instance from glass or wood.
• the hydrophobic polymers in question are normally synthetic.
• the sp 3 -hybridized carbon atoms is often present as part of an alkyl/alkylene group, which in turn is included in the polymer chain. Examples are vinyl polymers (polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, polybutadien, etc.) or hydrophobic polyesters, polyethers, polyamides where the ester group, ether group, and amide group are part of the polymer chain.
• the sp 3 -hybridized carbon atom may also be present in groups which project out from the polymer chain.
• the aforesaid does not exclude the use of hydrophobic polymers which are hydrogen-bound to other types of carbon atoms, for instance aromatically bound hydrogen, aldehyde hydrogens etc. It is not the primary purpose of the invention for all these types of hydrogens to take part in the grafting reaction, even though it is not possible to exclude that conditions can be varied so that they will take part.
• the hydrophobic polymer should not be dissolvable in the liquid in which the photoinitiator and hydrophilic polymer are dissolved.
• the initiators shall have a relatively strong UV-absorption ( ⁇ > 10 liter/mol/cm that in some cases may be > 100 liter/mol/cm) in the wave length range 300-400 nm.
• the benzophenone structure is per se hydrophobic, meaning that non-substituted compounds will be insoluble/hardly soluble in preferred solvents (liquids) which in turn are hydrophilic. Accordingly, preferred initiators are benzophenone structures substituted with one or more hydrophilic groups containing
• ion groups or ionizable groups such as carboxy (-COOH/-COO " ), sulphate (-OS0 3 -) , sulphonate (-S0 3 -) , phosphate (-OP0 3 2 - ), phosphonate (-P0 3 2 -) , primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary amino (-N + (R 17 R 2 ,R 3 ) , zwitterion groups, or
• (b) neutral hydrophilic groups for instance hydroxy (HO-) , such as in carbohydrates, amido (R x -CONR 2 -), polyethoxy (R x - (OCH 2 CH 2 ) n O-) etc.
• R 1-3 is hydrogen or a lower alkyl, such as C ⁇ . 6 alkyl, or aryl, and n is an integer > 0.
• the vacant valency in the groups will either bind directly to aromatic carbon in the benzophenone structure or to primary, secondary or tertiary carbon included in a hydrocarbon chain which, in turn, binds to the benzophenone strueture.
• the substituting groups should only absorb light at wavelengths which are well separated from the wavelength range at which activation takes place; i.e. in the majority of cases they should not absorb longwave light in the range of 300-400 nm.
• photoinitiators shall be soluble in the same solvent as that used to dissolve the hydrophilic polymer.
• the photoinitiator most preferred at present is 4- benzoyl-benzyl-trimethylammonium chloride (Quantacure® BTC) , which is an example of a compound having a substituted benzophenone structure in which an hydrophilic group (quarternary amino) binds to an aromatic carbon through a hydrocarbon chain (-CH 2 -) .
• CH- alkene groups
• the best results were obtained with hydrophilic polymers in which the alkene group was included in an allyl group.
• the bridge (-B-) may be a pure hydrocarbon chain having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, such as methylene (-CH 2 -), or may include a suitable functional group, such as carbonyl (-CO-) .
• the bridge (-B-) binds via its one free valency to the free valency of the alkene group and via the other free valency to the hydrophilic polymer, normally via an ether oxygen or an ester oxygen or an amino nitrogen or amine or amido nitrogen.
• (-B-) preferred on the priority date was methylene (-CH 2 -) which binds to the hydrophilic polymer via an ether oxygen.
• the hydrophilicity of the hydrophilic polymer is normally associated with the presence of a plurality of hydroxy (HO-) and/or amino groups (NH 2 -) on the polymer, where one or more hydrogens can be substituted for lower alkyls alkyl) .
• HO- and/or amino groups (NH 2 -) enables derivation to be readily achieved after having grafted the hydrophilic polymer to the surface.
• Suitable polymers often have carbohydrate structures such as in dextran, pullulan, cellulose, amylose, etc.
• Other potentially usable polymers are polyvinyl alcohol and polyvinyl ethers ( [CH-CHOR] n , where n is an integer and R is an alkene group (normally C 1-10 and possibly including an ether structure, thioether structure, amino structure or some other stable structure) to which an hydroxy group or amino group is bound) .
• the polymers may also include ion- exchanging groups, hydrophobic groups, groups which have biospecific affinity, etc.
• hydrophilic polymers concerned shall be soluble in the solvent used.
• the solvent (liquid) in which the photoinitiator and the hydrophilic polymer are dissolved is primarily water or mixtures which can consist of water and/or water-miscible solvents (liquids) .
• the primary principle is that the solvent shall dissolve the photoinitiator and hydrophilic polymer but not the hydrophobic polymer.
• the solvent is chosen so that the photoinitiator partition coefficient for distribution between solvent and hydrophobic polymer will greatly favour distribution to the solvent phase (the liquid phase) .
• the photoinitiator is activated by irradiation with a lamp which emits the light required for the photoinitiator to absorb light of such wavelength as to be activated.
• a lamp which emits the light required for the photoinitiator to absorb light of such wavelength as to be activated.
• Normally longwave UV-light preferably 300-400 nm
• Light of shorter wavelengths ⁇ 300 nm
• the temperature is maintained at a level in which the aforesaid solution conditions are maintained. Accordingly, cold UV-light is preferred, among other things.
• High grafting reaction yields require the hydrogen abstraction to be directed selectively to the outer surface of the hydrophobic polymer. This can be achieved when the photoinitiator/solvent are selected so that the photoinitiator will not be distributed to the hydrophobic polymer to any appreciable extent, in combination with a transparent hydrophobic polymer, and by irradiating in a direction through the hydrophobic polymer towards the solution that contains the photoinitiator and hydrophilic polymer.
• the hydrophilic polymer can be derivated in a known manner, either before or after the grafting reaction, so as to contain charged groups [-C00 " , -NR 3 + , -P0 3 H 2"
• Polystyrene microtiterplates (Dynatech Microelisa, without softener) and polyvinyl chloride microtiterplates (PVC, Costar Serocluster vinyl plate) were used respectively in the experiments.
• the plates were placed above a UV-lamp which emitted light at a wavelength which activated the photoinitiator used.
• the wells were then filled with a solution containing photoinitiator and allyl derivated polymer or acryl derivated polymer, whereafter the plates were irradiated for 1-10 minutes and washed with distilled water and ethanol and finally dried for one calendar day (50°C) prior to being analyzed.
• the benefit obtained by irradiating from beneath is that the light is mainly absorbed by initiator that is located close to the matrix surface. This favors the abstraction of hydrogen from the matrix polymer, which in turn requires the mirotiterplate to be transparent in the wavelength range in which the initiator absorbs (340-360 nm in the case of benzophenone) . Both of the microtiterplates used (PVC and polystyrene) fulfilled this requirement. Grafting with allyl dextran/benzophenone:
• IR-PAS showed three pronounced peaks at 1658 cm “1 , 1278 cm “1 and 702 cm “1 which derive from the presence of numerous unsaturated (carbon-carbon-double bonds) which, to a large extent, have probably arisen in side reactions (degradation of PVC via elimination of HCl) and to a lesser extent derive from non-reacted allyl groups .
• the degree of unsaturations was much lower when grafting with GMA (result not shown) .
• the degradation of PVC is due to radicals formed within the matrix being split by a chlorine radical instead of binding to allyl dextran. The chlorine radical continues the degradation process by abstracting hydrogen, which in turn can provide new double bonds.
• the process is favoured by the relatively poor solubility of benzophenone in the solvent.
• Surface grafting is also disfavoured, because benzophenone dissolved in the matrix absorbs the greater part of the UV-light before reaching the phase interface between the liquid and the hydrophobic polymer.
• the initiator shall be available in the interphase and not in the polymer.
• PAS-IR showed a pronounced hydroxyl peak from grafted dextran. Three peaks from degraded PVC were also observed in the case of PVC microtiter plates. Grafting on polystyrene gave a slightly lower hydroxyl peak than that obtained with PVC. No degradation was observed in the case of polystyrene.
• the method applied was the same as that described above with respect to allyl dextran, with the exception that the grafting solution was produced by dissolving 0.72 g Quantacure® BTC and 1 g acryl dextran in 10 ml water.
• the acryl dextran included, on average, one acryl group on each eighth monosaccharide unit.
• a visual assessment indicated that the applied layer was not of the same high quality as that obtained when using allyl dextran.
• Contact angle measurements indicated grafting on both types of material [advancing 70° (PVC) and 61° (polystyrene; receding 30° (PVC) and 15° (polystyrene) ] .
• the polystyrene material was also analyzed with ESCA, which showed a thinner layer than when grafting was effected with allyl dextran. No measurable grafting could be observed with IR-PAS.
• PS- dextran 76 30 0.20 64.0 (60) 35.2 (40)

Priority Applications (7)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Publications (1)

Family

ID=20393709

Family Applications (1)

Country Status (10)

Cited By (5)

Families Citing this family (30)

Citations (1)

Family Cites Families (7)

• 1994
  • 1994-04-20 SE SE9401327A patent/SE9401327D0/sv unknown
• 1995
  • 1995-04-13 WO PCT/SE1995/000403 patent/WO1995029203A1/en active IP Right Grant
  • 1995-04-13 JP JP52757295A patent/JP3471807B2/ja not_active Expired - Fee Related
  • 1995-04-13 ES ES95917530T patent/ES2190452T3/es not_active Expired - Lifetime
  • 1995-04-13 AT AT95917530T patent/ATE230771T1/de not_active IP Right Cessation
  • 1995-04-13 US US08/727,386 patent/US5773488A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
  • 1995-04-13 DK DK95917530T patent/DK0793685T3/da active
  • 1995-04-13 AU AU23546/95A patent/AU2354695A/en not_active Abandoned
  • 1995-04-13 EP EP95917530A patent/EP0793685B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
  • 1995-04-13 DE DE69529344T patent/DE69529344T2/de not_active Expired - Lifetime

Patent Citations (1)

Non-Patent Citations (1)

Also Published As

Similar Documents

Legal Events